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About Bint photoBooks on INTernet...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book... - Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins

Roth, Andrew (ed.)The open book. A history of the photographic book from 1878 to the present. Ed. by Andrew Roth with essays by Simon Anderson and Ute Eskildsen, a conversation with Philip Aarons and a photo-essay by Gerhard Steidl, including a contribution by Robert Frank. Afterword by Hasse Persson.